And Just Like That: Miranda Receives Strong Bisexual Eye Contact From Sara Ramirez in First SATC Reboot Trailer
After months of heated anticipation, a substantial trailer and a release date (December 9th) for HBO Max’s Sex and the City reboot “And Just Like That” has been unleashed upon the internet. That’s us, the internet. And we are tentatively quite excited?!
As previously discussed, Sara Ramirez will be playing “podcaster Che Diaz, a nonbinary, queer, stand-up comedian who often hosts Carrie Bradshaw (Parker) on their show. Che, who uses the pronouns they/them, is described as a big presence with a big heart whose outrageous sense of humor and progressive, human overview of gender roles has made them and their podcast very popular.”
And Che is all over this trailer!! And also maybe all over Miranda?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNLwEjJPbcs
Let’s discuss!
Natalie: Less than a month away, Carmen.
Carmen: AGGHHHHGGH NATALIE WHAT A GOOD MORNING THANK YOU
[drawn heart our own]
Valerie: Carmen the little heart!
Carmen: Hahaahaaa, I am who I am.
Carmen:
Is that Sara Ramirez (excuse me, Che) flirting with Miranda!!!
I think… I think…. MIRANDA HOBBES BISEXUAL????
Could we be that lucky???
Riese: Do you think that Carrie’s gonna be like “Che wore a chain with a lock around their neck but did Miranda have the key to open their heart?”
Natalie: I would also like to talk about the woman Miranda is with in the trailer.
Carmen:
Natalie: Yeah, the woman she’s talking to in that screenshot is married on the show but there is a rainbow enamel pin on her backpack so… I’m hopeful?
Carmen: Natalie… are out here doing SATC recon? Am I… going to have to add you to our club?
(Editor’s Note: the SATC club currently consists of Carmen Phillips, Reboot Board President and Riese Bernard, Historian of SATC and all things 1990s and 2000s. Drew Gregory puts up with us.)
Natalie: lol
Carmen: So that Black woman with the rainbow pin holding on to Miranda for dear life is Dr. Nya Wallace (played by Karen Pittman). She’s a Columbia law professor who’s married to Andre Rashad Wallace (LeRoy McClain), a musician. But it’s 2021 and I believe everyone is poly and pansexual until told differently.
Heather: What is especially funny to me about the Miranda screenshot is Cynthia Nixon is notorious for riding the MTA around NYC and glaring down anyone who looks in her direction, like unblinkingly, for until that person gets off the train.
Riese: MIRANDA HOBBES BISEXUAL
Ruby Rose Says Batwoman’s Dangerous Set Caused Them to Leave the Show
Feature image by Photo by Phillip Faraone/WireImage
On the heels of The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) groundbreaking win for better working conditions in their negotiations — and strike threat — with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), this morning Ruby Rose took to Instagram talk about their experience with dangerous set conditions on Batwoman, which included more details about the neck injury they suffered while doing their own stunts in 2019. They also mentioned seeing a crew member suffer third degree burns all over his body, sustaining a cut on their face that was “so close to my eye, I could have been blind,” losing two stunt doubles over the course of the season, and being forced to film during Covid when all the CW’s other series were shutting down.
In their Instagram stories, Rose also called out several Batwoman execs, from Former Warner Bros. Television Group Chairman Peter Roth, who Rose says made young women “steam his pants… around his crotch” while he was still wearing them; to showrunner Caroline Dries, who Rose says “has no heart and wanted us to finish the season throughout the pandemic” and who “maybe visited the set 4 times in a year”; to co-star Dougray Scott, who “hurt a female stunt double” and “yelled like a little bitch at women and was a nightmare.” (Of note: Both Roth and Scott have left WB and the series.)
Rose’s Instagram posts color in some of the lines that they drew when they left the series after the first season. At first, the decision seemed like a tense but mostly amicable split but as more statements and interviews and rumors and Insta lives from the cast have rolled out, the situation has seemed a lot more messy than the original press releases let on. And now we know!
As Hollywood continues to be dragged, kicking and screaming, into 2021, it’s as important as ever for LGBTQ+ folks, women, people of color, and disabled cast and crew to share their stories to generate collective power and force accountability and reform.
As I was reading Rose’s IG, I was thinking about recent conversations from Azie Tesfai’s (Kelly Olsen / Guardian from Supergirl) Instagram Live, where she got together to talk with Javicia Leslie (our Batwoman) and Candice Patton (Iris West from The Flash) to talk about being Black women in the Arrowverse, and how they’ve had to form their own support group to deal with racism from the top down while filming and promoting their shows. Javicia Leslie mentioned, more than once, for example, that DC’s decision to keep Kate Kane alive was a nightmare for her because it opened up even more doors for racist attacks from fans who wanted Kane back in the cape and cowl, or from shippers who wanted to see Sophie back with Kate instead of growing closer to Ryan Wilder. She can’t even turn on the comments during her IG Lives, due to the blatantly racist remarks
This on top of the racism these Black actresses deal with at comic cons, where they get shoved into un-trafficked corners for autographs with little promotion from organizers about their events or panels; and from their own co-stars who have a shameful track record when it comes to showing up for the Black women they work with. Wallis Day, who took over for Rose as Kate Kane in Batwoman season two, even went as far as to encourage racist abuse against Leslie by laughing at people who called her out for not standing up when commenters hurled racist abuse at Leslie on Day’s social media posts.
We’ve even seen this play out at Autostraddle, with commenters consistently questioning the CW’s decision to create a new superhero played by a Black bisexual woman, instead of supporting a revolutionary storytelling decision during an unprecedented uprising for Black lives. Which is to say: Questioning the whole entire point of superheroes! Which is to be the role models and protectors we need at the exact time we need them!
As “Batwoman” and “Ruby Rose” trend on Twitter and countless people call for a shut down of the show because of Rose’s posts, I hope we’ll keep in mind the totality of the abuse queer people and POC have suffered on these superhero sets over the years, and come together to continue to push for sweeping change that protects everyone on set and in writers rooms and in executive offices, especially those most vulnerable in our community.
It’s Not Too Late to Get Into Your “Twenties”! An EXCLUSIVE Clip of the Season Two Premiere
Let’s talk a minute about Lena Waithe’s Twenties on BET. It entered the game already making history, with Jojo T. Gibb’s Hattie stepping into the spotlight as the FIRST Black masc lesbian to ever serve as the protagonist of a major television show. They ended the first season walking away with multiple Gay Emmys nominations (Outstanding Comedy for the show and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy for Gibbs). And now it’s back! And we have an EXCLUSIVE CLIP of it’s Season Two premiere, thanks to BET!
Before we get into it, where did we leave off? Season One followed Hattie (Gibbs) as she worked as a writers’ room assistant for Ida B. (Sophina Brown), Black Hollywood mogul and legend. Ida and Hattie have an extremely.. well there’s no way to put this, but HOT flirtationship happening all season that’s mildly inappropriate for the workplace, and it ends thusly:
“Hattie heads home only to find Ida B. on her doorstep. It’s not just a surprise to see her, but also that her hair is pulled back and her cheeks streaked with tears, Hattie’s script in her hands. Ida’s power mask is off and she sweeps Hattie up into a hot, hot final kiss for the season.”
OK! And NOW! Here we go….
I straight up started rolling laughing somewhere around Hattie badly singing Anita Baker (“my angellllllllll”), and I didn’t stop right until the end of the clip.
I did the math on this, and if you somehow missed the first season of Twenties, there’s only 8 (just 8!!) half hour episodes, which is a short 4-hour binge. A sprint, really. You could both start it and end it tonight, and STILL have plenty of time to be prepared for the Season Two premiere tomorrow night on BET.
And trust me, you’re gonna want to do that. Not just for Hattie’s dimples, though I mean look, ok — you see them, and not just because Ida’s hot enough to melt lava, but because WE ARE BRINGING YOU FULL EPISODE RECAPS OF TWENTIES, RIGHT HERE ON AUTOSTRADDLE. STARTING WITH THE SEASON TWO PREMIERE, THIS WEEK!
It’s pretty rare that we do full episode recaps of half hour comedies, it’s even more rare that we start full recaps in the second season of a show. And that alone should tell you how hype we are for this one.
Season Two of Twenties airs October 13th (that’s tomorrow!) at 10pm ET/PT on BET and BET HER.
The L Word Generation Q Season 2: Everything We Know
The L Word: Generation Q Season 2 premiered on August 6th, and this is absolutely everything we know about what to expect! Information below is perpetually updated and is organized from newest piece of information to oldest. Be careful, there are spoilers inside some of the photo galleries!
Latest Update: 10/21/2021
Be warned that photos of future episodes might contain subtle spoilers!
Recap and Podcast From Episode 210 “Last Call”
New Photos from 210 “Last Call”
(L-R): Leisha Hailey as Alice and Katherine Moennig as Shane in THE L WORD: GENERATION Q “Last Call”. Photo Credit: Paul Sarkis/SHOWTIME.
Recap and Podcast From Episode 209 “Last Dance”
- The L Word: Generation Q Podcast Episode for 209, by Drew, Ana and Riese
The L Word: Generation Q Episode 209 Recap, by Riese
New Photos from 209 “Last Dance”
(L-R): Leisha Hailey as Alice, Katherine Moennig as Shane and Jamie Clayton as Tess in THE L WORD: GENERATION Q “Last Dance”. Photo Credit: Liz Morris/SHOWTIME.
Recap and Podcast from 208, “Launch Party”
- L Word Generation Q Episode 208 Recap, by Riese
- The L Word: Generation Q – Autostraddle, co-hosted by Drew, Analyssa and Riese
New Photos from 208 “Launch Party”
(L-R): Donald Faison as Tom and Leisha Hailey as Alice in THE L WORD: GENERATION Q “Launch Party”. Photo Credit: Paul Sarkis/SHOWTIME.
Recap and Podcast from 207, “Light”
- The L Word Generation Q 207 Recap by Riese
“To L and Back” Podcast Episode 207, co-hosted by Drew Gregory, Analyssa Lopez and Riese
New Photos from 207 “Light”
(L-R): Jennifer Beals as Bette and Vanessa A. Williams as Pippain THE L WORD: GENERATION Q “Light”. Photo Credit: Liz Morris/SHOWTIME.
Recap and Podcast from 206, “Love Shack”
- The L Word Generation Q 206 Recap by Riese
- “To L and Back” Podcast Episode for 206, co-hosted by Drew Gregory, Analyssa Lopez and Riese
New Photos from 206 “Love Shack”
(L-R): Leo Sheng as Micah, Sepideh Moafi as Gigi and Arienne Mandi as Dani in THE L WORD: GENERATION Q “Love Shack”. Photo Credit: Liz Morris/SHOWTIME.
Recap and Podcast From 205, “Lobsters, Too”
- The L Word Generation Q 205 Recap by Riese
- “To L and Back” Podcast Episode for 205, co-hosted by Drew Gregory, Analyssa Lopez and Riese
New Photos From 205 “Lobsters, Too”
Rosanny Zayas as Sophie in THE L WORD: GENERATION Q “Lobsters, Too”. Photo Credit: Liz Morris/SHOWTIME.
Recap and Podcast From 204, “Lake House”
- The L Word Generation Q 204 Recap by Riese
- “To L and Back” Podcast Episode for 204, co-hosted by Drew Gregory, Analyssa Lopez and Riese
New Photos From 204 “Lake House”
(L-R): Leo Sheng as Micah and Jordan Hull as Angie in THE L WORD: GENERATION Q “Lake House”. Photo Credit: Liz Morris/SHOWTIME.
Recap and Podcast From 203 “Luck Be a Lady”
- The L Word Generation Q 203 Recap by Riese
- “To L and Back” Podcast Episode for 203, co-hosted by Drew Gregory, Analyssa Lopez and Riese
New Photos From 203 “Luck Be a Lady”
(L-R): Jennifer Beals as Bette and Sepideh Moafi as Gigi in THE L WORD: GENERATION Q ÒLuck be a LadyÓ. Photo Credit: Liz Morris/SHOWTIME.
New Season 2 Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-CW87pFGfQ
Recap and Podcast From 202 “Late To The Party”
- The L Word Generation Q 202 Recap by Riese
- “To L and Back” Podcast Episode for 202, co-hosted by Drew Gregory, Analyssa Lopez and Riese
Press Stills From 202:
Jacqueline Toboni as Finley in THE L WORD: GENERATION Q “Lean On Me”. Photo Credit: Liz Morris/SHOWTIME.
Recap and Podcast From 201 “Late To The Party”
- The L Word Generation Q 201 Recap by Riese
- “To L and Back” Podcast Episode for 201, co-hosted by Drew Gregory, Analyssa Lopez and Riese
Press Stills From 201:
(L-R): Rosanny Zayas as Sophie and Leisha Hailey as Alice in THE L WORD: GENERATION Q “Late to the Party”. Photo Credit: Liz Morris/SHOWTIME.
The L Word Generation Q Season 2 Episode Titles Are Here
The L Word: Generation Q posted a graphic sharing the season’s episode names, and they are:
201: Late to the Party
202: Lean On Me
203: Luck Be a Lady (also the title of Episode 406 of the original series)
204: Lake House (reminiscent of Episode 503, Lady of the Lake!)
205: Lobsters, Too (likely a throwback to Episode 303, Lobsters)
206: Love Shack
207: Light
208: Launch Party
209: Last Dance (which was the title of Episode 311, which was the one with Dana’s funeral and them spreading the ashes in the ghost waterfall? This is upsetting)
210: Last Call
Trans Latina Actress Carolina Gutierrez Is Booked For Three Episodes of L Word Generation Q Season 2
Carolina will be playing “Marissa,” who meets Nat at an event in the first episode.
The Full Length L Word Generation Q Season 2 Trailer Is Here
Our long drought is over and we FINALLY HAVE A FULL LENGTH TRAILER FOR SEASON TWO!! In it you will find everything ranging from the adorable (Bette, Alice, and Shane doing drunken karaoke? Yes please!) to the hotttt (confirmation of a Bette/Gigi hook up! We cannot wait until August!). There was so much to cover that our TV Team broke down the entire trailer, shot by shot, in a separate post which you can find right here.
Showtime Will Release New L Word Generation Q Episodes To Subscribers Two Days Early
Showtime has announced that they will release new episodes of “The L Word: Generation Q” on its streaming services two days prior to their airing on linear TV — meaning streaming subscribers and those who subscribe through a pay-TV cable package will be able to watch on Friday nights. This apparently will “give it some breathing room” when other tentpole shows, like Billions, are added to Sunday’s linear schedule on September. I’m honestly not sure what that means!
According to Digiday, “Showtime picked “The L Word: Generation Q” as the show to give to streaming audiences early, in part, because it has a committed fanbase of viewers likely to seek it out on streaming.” Apparently over 30% of the show’s audience tuned in via streaming, which is on “the high end.”
The L Word Generation Q’s Season 2 Premiere Date is August 6th and the L Word Generation Q Season 2 Teaser Is Here
Multiple sources, including an inside source of our own and cast member Jacqueline Toboni, had seemingly confirmed an August 8th premiere date, but Showtime has since confirmed an August 6th premiere date on their social channels, which are also sporting new show art! The L Word Generation Q Season 2 Trailer has also dropped.
The L Word: Generation Q will premiere on Friday night rather than a Sunday night but then will shift to its regular spot on Sunday nights.
L Word Generation Q Filming Wrapped on May 25th
TV Line has heard rumors that “you can count on a summertime premiere” for the show, and then we heard that it was August 8th, and then Jacqueline Toboni said “see you August 8” on her instagram so this date feels pretty solid.
The L Word Generation Q Season 2 filming wrapped on May 25th, with additional wrap photos popping up on the instagrams of Kate Moennig, Leisha Hailey, Jamie Clayton and Jennifer Beals. The week prior, Jillian Mercado and Arienne Mandi wrapped their filming for Season 2.
It Looks Like Alice is Becoming An Author in Season Two
A recent instagram post from Leisha Hailey shows Alice on the beach with Tom (Donald Fasion) who is described as “a successful book editor with an effortless sense of humor.” Another social media post features Alice at the red carpet premiere for “Don’t Ask Alice” and the logo on her step-and-repeat behind her looks very much like a publisher’s imprint!
Tina’s Fiancée Carrie, Played by Rosie O’Donnell, Will Feel Weird Meeting Tina’s Friends
In an interview with (former Autostraddle writer!) Jess Rotschild on her podcast “Deep Dives and Hot Takes,” Rosie O’Donnell spoke about her upcoming role on Season Two The L Word Generation Q as Carrie, Tina’s Fiancée, a “down-to-earth lawyer with no frills.” Rosie said when she first saw the original series, she was confused: “where are all these high fashion lesbians who travel in packs?”
“It’s been really interesting to see… how do you make a Rosie O’Donnell fit into The L Word?” Rosie told Jess. She said her role as Tina’s Fiancée will entail “meeting all of her group and feeling like the outside and like I don’t have the right clothes and they’re never gonna accept me. And they’ve written that beautifully.” She feels intimidated by Bette Porter “shows up looking like a fashion magazine and I’m there trying to make sure my stomach isn’t showing.” She said the role has allowed her to look through all her self-esteem issues, “and when they find out I have some 12-step going on or some demons in my past or … not taking care of myself. They put it all in there.”
Rachel Shelley aka Helena Peabody Will Appear in The L Word: Generation Q Season 2
Rachel Shelley, who has been editing/producing Kate and Leisha’s Pants Podcast and in Season One was shown texting Shane on her birthday, is returning for at least one episode, according to imdb, who has her on the roster for episode 203. I hope this is an in-person thing and not like, a voice mail? (Hat tip to the.ash.silver, who noticed the news first!) (UPDATE: They seem to have cut this cameo ’cause the whole season has completed and she did not show up)
Vanessa Williams is Playing Pippa, an Artist Bette is Obsessed With
According to Variety, veteran actress Vanessa Williams has been cast in a recurring role in The L Word: Generation Q Season 2! Williams will be playing Pippa Pascal, described by Variety as “an incendiary artist who’s been out of the public eye for almost 20 years — until Bette becomes determined to track her down.” You might know Vanessa Williams from a million things from New Jack City to Candyman (she’s also starring in this year’s sequel to the cult classic, directed by Nia DeCosta, which we should’ve had by now but thanks Covid for ruining so much about my entertainment life!) to Soul Food: the TV Show. So… Pippa is an artist, she’s hot, it’s a reoccurring role, she’s roughly Bette’s age…. and anyone who remembers Jodi Lerner can see what might be cooking up here!
Filming Is Happening Now
The L Word Generation Q Season 2 started filming in December and is set to wrap in May. Season One cast members Jennifer Beals, Kate Moennig, Leisha Hailey, Rosanny Zayas, Arienne Mandi, Leo Sheng, Jacqueline Toboni, Jamie Clayton, Sepideh Moafi, Jordan Hull, Stephanie Allyne and Jillian Mercado have all posted or appeared in pictures from the set.
Rosie O’Donnell is playing Tina’s fiancée, Carrie
In December, it was announced that O’Donnell will be playing Carrie, “a kindhearted public defender who is thrust into Bette’s life and quickly gets under her skin” on Season 2 of The L Word Generation Q. O’Donnell has since taken pictures and posted TikToks from the set of the show. Eagle ears recognized that “Carrie” was the name of Tina Kennard’s fiancee. Rosie returned home in mid-February, so her run is probably just a few episodes. Jennifer Beals has tagged photos of herself and Rosie as #bettesworstnightmare.
Angie Porter-Kennard Might Be Meeting Her ?!Half-Sister?!
According to IMDB, Brook’Lynn Sanders, a teenage actress, has acquired the recurring co-star role of “Kayla Allenwood” in The L Word Generation Q Season 2. People who know too much about The L Word will recognize “Allenwood” as the last name of Marcus Allenwood, the artist who gave his sperm to Bette and Tina so that they could make a baby. Also, Angie is a series regular now so there will be so much more of her in general!
Donald Faison Will Play Tom, Alice’s Book Editor?
The Scrubs star will be appearing as a successful and funny book editor who is working with Alice on something. Perhaps that something… is a book?
Alice Has a (New?) (Old?) Show Called “The Chart”
via Leo Sheng on Instgram
Leo Sheng recently did a “Season 2 Photodump” and one of the pictures featured what is described as “a poster from Alice’s talk show set” with “logos for where to stream Alice’s show (within the world of Gen Q).” “The Chart” was, of course, the name of Alice’s truly terrible KCRW radio show from Seasons 2 + 3 of the original series in which she basically told everybody in Los Angeles about the sexual liaisons of all of her closest friends, and then was sad about Dana for a long time. Anyhow! Will The Chart be a podcast or a TV show? Do people call podcasts “streaming”? But also, the headphones on the boob statue? Wow, so many possibilities here.
Cops and Detectives Will Be Present in The L Word Generation Q Season 2
There seems to be a few characters described as cops or detectives and none of them are named Tasha Williams. If this is about Bette defending Angie from that guy trying to attack her on the stairs after the play then I swear to G-d I will scream into every throw pillow in the Los Angeles metro area. (With a mask on.)
Tina is Back
Tina’s fiancee Carrie being part of the show is a pretty solid hint that Tina’s returning to our lives and so are the photos of her on set and in table reads!
Bette’s Returning to the Art World
Griffin Dunne (I Love Dick, Girls) is set to guest star as Isaac, a big international art dealer who builds a relationship with Bette. There’s also the aforementioned Pippa. Furthermore there are a few other art-related characters already slated to exist, including a few artists, another recurring male international art dealer, an art assistant and an “art enthusiast.”
Shane and Tess Will Have “Complicated Dynamic” in The L Word Generation Q Season 2
On the PANTS podcast, Kate Moennig was like, working with Jamie is “reminiscent of the original show” and also all of Jamie’s scenes are with Kate and also their characters have a “complicated dynamic” in which they “challenge each other.” “We’re definitely like an It’s Complicated,” said Jamie. “It’s Complicated, totally, Facebook Status 100%,” Kate said. “It’s complicated. Are we giving anything away? I don’t think so.”
Dani and Gigi Look Great … Together?
Watch this spot for more updates as we obtain them!
The L Word: Generation Q Season 2 Trailer: We’re Breaking it Down Frame-By-Frame!
The L Word Generation Q season 2 trailer is here, and full of: drama! intrigue! scissoring! an awful lot of poker(?), karaoke, staring, glaring, running, heavy breathing, and Angie being in queer love in a tux (my personal favorite part)! Unfortunately, the world’s foremost The L Word expert and everyone’s favorite queer recapper, Riese Bernard, is on vacation — but she left explicit instructions that we should post this trailer AS SOON AS POSSIBLE if it landed in her absence, and so here we are. Below you will find the full trailer, and frame-by-frame analysis from our TV Team (obviously).
Also please feel free to revisit the teaser trailers to inform your own theories!
The L Word: Generation Q Season 2 Trailer, Frame-by-Frame
Natalie: I both feel bad for Finley here (aww, bby!) and have a little bit more respect for Dani for (presumably) punching her in the eye!
Carmen: 100% Dani knocked her out, right? That’s the only way.
Heather: I love the nod to the fact that Finley would absolutely be wearing a USWNT jersey just around town, without Showtime getting licensing permission. :joy:
Valerie: Who wants to bet on whether they re-use the “liquor in the front, poker in the rear”
Kayla Kumari: I do love that between the original series and Gen Q, The L Word is really peddling the message that dykes are just constantly playing poker?????
Carmen: The original poker scene in Season Four of The L Word gave me the love of my life, Tasha Williams. So everything poker related is accepted and beloved by me. Those are the rules of the Tasha Williams fanclub, I did not create them (I did), but I sure do abide by them.
Carmen: BRING BACK TASHA WILLIAMS! Sorry. Ahem.
Heather: Y’all make me so nervous when these trailers come out because you get so manic seeing Bette Porter smooching and swaggering around you forget how dirty TLW did all the best characters!!!!!!
Carmen: I can do them both at the same time! Bette Porter is hot and Bring Back Tasha Williams!
Natalie: WHO DID YOU PICK, SOPHIE?!
Kayla Kumari: Why does this look like a still from Carol
Carmen: Generation Q, directed by Todd Haynes
Heather: Dearest, there are no accidents.
Natalie: I’m sure that first season GenQ guest star, Megan Rapinoe, would not object to me co-opting her motto for this moment: LET’S FUCKIN’ GOOOOO!
Natalie: Aww, I have missed this face. Even though IreallyhopeSophiechoseFinleyandnotyou, I’ve missed this face.
Natalie: I guess after punching Finley in the face, Dani’s leaning all the way into her butchy swagger. Personally, I am here for it.
Carmen: This is the hottest Dani has ever been, which is saying a lot and I personally require more shots that showcase her shoulders and jawline.
Valerie: 🥺 is a gay emoji now i don’t make the rules
Heather: I just realized how homophobic it is that we don’t have a backwards baseball cap emoji yet.
Natalie: I didn’t appreciate how long it’s been since we saw them until I saw Sophie’s hair.
Kayla Kumari: Lots of gay distress in this trailer
Natalie: I’d also note that “the real deal not coming around that often” is a call back to Carmen saying that very thing to Shane in the OG series and well, we know how that turned out
Carmen: Now THIS is the face I most missed!!! Welcome back to my Afro-Latina Queen.
Valerie: Cue all the interviews talking about LA being its own character in the show.
Natalie: lol
Carmen: Listen after six seasons of the OG series filming in Vancouver, they’ve gotta milk that city for all it’s worth. 😂
Natalie: “If we are paying these high ass taxes, we are going to get our money’s worth!”
Drew Gregory: I love that Tess and Shane are paired throughout this trailer. Would love it even more if Tess was trans. (Fun fact: I do not let things go.)
Natalie: We love that about you, Drew.
Valerie: Truly wouldn’t have it any other way
Kayla Kumari: Always support your persistence Drew
Kayla Kumari: Also I WOULD watch a buddy comedy about Tess and Shane called Jean Jacket/Leather Jacket
Valerie: Co-sign
Natalie: The Cheaters Club!
Natalie: Perhaps Gigi can school Bette on the benefits of polyamory and nonmonogamy since she is also incapable.
Carmen: N A T A L I E
Kayla Kumari: Gigi and Bette are like YES we’re hot and YES we will cheat on you 😇
Carmen: K A Y L A
Natalie: (An addendum: Gigi and Bette are like YES we’re hot and YES we will cheat on you and YES you will allow it.)
Valerie: So this isn’t like, a poker night for all of Dana’s, it’s a friends and exes only poker game? do people do this? is this an LA thing?
Natalie: I wonder what Tonya would have to say about Alice lecturing someone else about cheating…at DANA’s.
Heather: I WONDER WHAT MISTER PIDDLES WOULD SAY.
Kayla Kumari: I love that we can be in any time, any place, in any dimension or universe and no matter WHAT, Shane will still be wearing a wide collar
Natalie: Shane is all of us: wanting Alice to very much stop throwing stones from her glass house.
Heather: I feel like being Alice’s friends means you spend like 30% of your time looking uncomfortable and not making eye contact like this.
Kayla Kumari: Alice is trying to turn the poker game into a group therapy session, which is exactly the kind of chaos I expect from Alice
Carmen: If you aren’t turning your group hangs into group therapy, are you even dyking right? I don’t believe that you are.
Heather: “I’ll see your fearful-avoidant attachment style and raise you self-destructive impulses disguised as self-care.”
Valerie: tbh this is usually my face after an Alice line too.
Natalie: Gigi is not amused.
Kayla Kumari: tbh no thoughts head empty because…. they’re so hot.
Valerie: This season is sponsored by West Elm
Natalie: LOL
Heather: Better than being sponsored by those IKEA Pride couches. (Those couches oughta be glad Generation Q season 2 trailer dropped today so the gays have something else to obsess about.)
Kayla Kumari: Classic gay close-up of hands
Natalie: WHO’S HAND IS THAT?!
Kayla Kumari: Computer….. ENHANCE
Kayla Kumari: That’s a wedding ring right? that’s the only clue we have as to who it could be.
Kayla Kumari: Wait who is even married.
Heather: That is a hefty ring! Only the original characters could afford that ring!
Carmen: I think it’s Bette (I think all sex hands are Bette, I’ve been programmed since 2004)
Valerie :tugs at collar:
Natalie: lol
Heather: Bette should propose to and marry herself; she’d be queer fandom’s all-time favorite character and couple.
Drew Gregory: I’m excited that Micah is officially bi on the show! Less excited that it seems like they’re going to make a whole thing of it?
Kayla Kumari: Yeah I think they’re going full ✈️ identity crisis with it, which… why
Carmen: I’m less excited that he slept with a woman, and that woman wasn’t Dani, thus already slashing the #3 wish on my Gen Q Season 2 Bingo Card
Natalie: OOOH, I would love that storyline.
Natalie: Sorry, as the team’s resident bisexual, I have to say, I love everything about this: Leo Sheng with that hair, in that shirt, with those arms and being bisexual.
Kayla Kumari: THE HAIR IS SO GOOD
Natalie: Also, this is The L Word, they’ll forget about him being bisexual in a few seasons anyway. *coughAlicecough *
Kayla Kumari: too real
Kayla Kumari: my people are the people who dropped everything they were doing to watch this trailer (all of us)
Natalie: 100%
Drew Gregory: All it took was Rosie to get a butch character on this show.
Natalie: I said I wanted Rose back not Rosie. Rose Rollins.
Heather: “Oh, you ran for mayor? That’s cute. I played third base for the Rockford Peaches.”
Carmen: (I have nothing that will top that, I shall see myself out stage left)
Valerie: Yes.
Carmen: YES.
Heather: “Is that… did you find… Tina, is that an actual butch?”
Kayla Kumari: This look has the energy of this tweet imo:
https://twitter.com/daniellechezzy/status/1092482206545649664
Heather: “A butch. No, Shane, like a butch-butch.”
Carmen: The idea of Jennifer Beals “having no one” as if she is not Jennifer Beals is going to be the hardest part of Season Two to swallow. HAVE THEY NOT SEEN HER FACE? HAVE THEY NOT HEARD HER SAY FUCK?
Your honor, I rest my case.
Natalie: Yeah, I have nothing to add to that.
Kayla Kumari: I do feel like Bette is deflecting some of her personal accountability by being like I HAVE NO ONE. Maybe learn how to have one (1) healthy boundary in life?????
Carmen: OK, I get it now, Gigi is fine. I’m late to this train. I almost missed the party invite. I am a bad gay. But I am here now! I have seen the light!
Kayla Kumari: WELCOME, CARMEN
Carmen: So close! Almost there!
Kayla Kumari: Legally when two people are this hot and chaotic, they have to kiss
Drew Gregory: This is why I watch The L Word. 🥲
Natalie: ALONE NO MORE.
Carmen: jsjisfesfssssddjsjdfasldfalfkadfjafklafdjakfjlaadsfjkldsaflkadfl
Carmen: The end.
Valerie: Should I not want this? I genuinely don’t remember if I should want this or not. I don’t NOT want it, I know that much.
Natalie: I am torn. On the one hand: HOT. SO HOT. Like, SCALDING HOT. On the other, this feels like the “we are not over our exes so let’s just fuck each other” club, and that feels like a waste.
Kayla Kumari: I personally think Gigi should always be having threesomes so I’m like WHO ELSE CAN WE GET IN HERE
Drew Gregory: So excited to squeal with excitement over these two again !!
Valerie: THIS IS VERY CUTE.
Heather: Now this is what I am here for!
Natalie: THIS IS SO CUTE
Heather: I feel more protective of this queer baby angel than any TV character I have ever met. I remember when she was born!
Heather: (Also, hey, just real quick, I need to say “Generation Q season 2 trailer” for SEO purposes. Okay, please proceed.)
Drew Gregory: The return of Catherine Rothberg.
Drew Gregory: I assume.
Valerie: Where’d they get all those poker chips? Helena Peabody?
Carmen: Ooooohhhhh shit! If the poker scene is how they write in the return of Helena Peabody, I will fully lose it! That’s gotta be it. It MUST BE IT.
Natalie: From your lips to God’s ears
Natalie: Are they giving Jillian Mercado a storyline this season? 🎉🎉🎉
Heather: I have loved every sister of any Sophie that has appeared on my screen in the last two years! 🦇
Valerie: Ditto!
Carmen: I BELIEVE THAT SHE’S GOING TO BE GAY!! She has to be, right? It’s The L Word! I’d kill for a Jillian Mercado coming out storyline, especially since she came out IRL during Season One… And now here she is in the Generation Q Season 2 trailer, so universe don’t be cruel to me! Also, it must be said! A babe!
Carmen: If we get a Shane/Tess hook up this season, I’ll (almost) forgive them for everything.
(I said almost)
Natalie: We do not need another one of those! It was a mistake in Season one! Tess and Shane should just be friends that run the bar and never speak of that one time they hooked up.
Heather: Nothing delights me more than how we all get about this stupid amazing show. We all take leave of our senses, then come back to ourselves, then lose it again, then our moral compasses kick back in. I can see the devil and angel on Natalie’s shoulders going to war right now!
Valerie: I am an absolute SUCKER for a karaoke scene. And these three together?? I need to know what they’re singing immediately. I hope it’s just their own names over a beat like that one Shane and Carmen song they had sex to on some DJ equipment.
Natalie: I remain skeptical that Bette Porter would: 1. ever do karaoke and 2. ever do karaoke in a public space
Natalie: However, if she did karaoke, she would obviously sing lead as she seems to be doing here
Kayla Kumari: GAY!!!! KARAOKE!!!!
Kayla Kumari: It feels nice to be represented
Valerie: What if they sing the theme song
Kayla Kumari: OK here’s a real story: At my regular karaoke spot back in Brooklyn, I really wanted to sing the L Word themesong for my going away party. The KJ tried SO HARD to find a karaoke version and was even willing to pay for it if he had to (best KJ ever tbh) but he couldn’t find it ANYWHERE
Kayla Kumari: It simply does not exist
Kayla Kumari: The band Betty follows me on Instagram…always tempting to DM them to ask for a goddamn karaoke version
Kayla Kumari: Also, same energy:
Kayla Kumari: Which is maybe why I’m imagining them singing ABBA
Carmen: I love that Tina coming back home with a butch has sent Bette into such a tailspin that the only way out was karaoke. That feels right, in my bones.
Natalie: I’m going to guess those are Vanessa Williams’ hands, so now I need to know who’s back that is?
Natalie: The bra seems too ornate for Bette?
Carmen: No it’s Bette. It has to be Bette. More Bette having sex with Black women. There is no other option. Why would you try to curse us in this way?
Carmen: It’s Bette.
Carmen: Did I say that it is Bette?
Natalie: So, again… just so I understand what you’re saying, Carmen… you think it’s Bette?
Carmen: It. Is. BETTE.
Carmen: (Can someone confirm for me that it is Jennifer Beals who has the “no one can see my tits on camera” rule? Did I make that up? I may have to text Riese)
Heather: That’s for real! I remember from the — get this — Television Without Pity forums
Carmen: OK wonderful!
Natalie: Is this why you think the picture is Bette? Because who else wouldn’t take off their bra?
Carmen: Yes. And because I think the hair/skin tone matches Jennifer Beals.
Carmen: But at least 60%-70% the bra.
Carmen: I also think it’s very Bette’s style to wear such an ornate bra! Ugly ornate clothing is kinda her thing (remember that hideous bow from election night?)
Natalie: Those are “I’m about to get into some trouble” eyes and I am here for it. I do not want a season of Dani being heartbroken over Sophie.
Carmen: Oh yeah, absolutely. Dani’s rebounds from Sophie by leveling up into the truest form of her power dyke self. It’s like a video game, she will become her own Final Boss.
Heather: Kayla, is this the face you were making that time you were waiting to sing TLW theme song at karaoke? Chaotic glee?
Kayla Kumari: Yes.
Kayla Kumari: I was like no one in this room is ready.
Valerie: 🎶 When I was a child I stayed wide awake, climbed to the highest place, on every fire escape, restless to climb!” 🎶
Heather: 🎶 And I’ll keep wanderin’ and wanderin’
And wanderin’ and wonderin’
When will my life begin? 🎶
Carmen: I am excited for this increase of Tess, because she was a breakout star, but I am also hoping Gen Q has learned from its past and has at least one (1!) trans lesbian this season!!
Natalie: 🥰🥰🥰
Valerie: Is Bette watching someone do karaoke? WHAT/WHO IS MAKING HER GLOW LIKE THIS
Heather: Honestly, I think it’s Alice and Shane pulling her up on stage for karaoke. I think it’s her FRIENDS. 😭
Valerie: 😭
Carmen: I think everyone just looks good in bisexual lighting? Is it in the sacred text of the gays?
Valerie: I am VERY excited for Queer Babies At Prom amongst all the adult queer chaos. I hope they play “I just wanna dance with you” from The Prom.
Heather: OMG, I hope they play the Flashdance theme song, WHAT A FEELING.
Carmen: Perfect. It’s absolutely, in every way, Perfect.
Kayla Kumari: Can’t wait to cry about this.
Heather: The Generation Q season 2 trailer dropped six minutes ago and I’m already crying about it. Bette and Tina’s and mine and Natalie’s baby.
Natalie: Celebrating being absolutely beloved by the audience even though their characters are kinda trash.
Carmen: OK.. And??? As! They! Should!
Kayla Kumari: DRAMA
Natalie: Bring it, Dani!
Carmen: Oooof. this is gonna be so good and I love it.
Kayla Kumari: DRAAAAAMAAA.
Heather: “I can’t wait to get punched in the face, and then do karaoke about this when I grow up.”
Kayla Kumari: Karaoke is the perfect setting for emotional processing
Natalie: Kayla, Karoake songs for every Gen Q cast member has to be a future post.
Kayla Kumari: OMG yes.
Natalie: BUT WHO DID SHE CHOOSE THOUGH?!
Kayla: I went to add the date to my calendar but it was already in my calendar
Carmen: 37! Days! Left!
Natalie: GET. HERE. SOONER.
If the Generation Q season 2 trailer has got you hype, we’d love to hear your theories and feelings in the comments!
Exclusive Trailer Drop! Con Todo Netflix’s “Visions of Us” Is an Absolute Love Letter to Queer Latinx TV and Film
Con Todo, Netflix’s home for Latinx storytelling, is honoring Pride this weekend with a four-part video digital documentary series Visions of Us that unpacks and gives space to groundbreaking moments in the history of queer and trans Latinx television and film. Queer Latinx stories has never been seen in full quite so lovingly or with such sharp reflection and analysis, created from its very roots by Latinx queer and trans creators behind-the-scenes as a love letter to the hardships, creativity, and triumphs we’ve faced — the connections we’ve found to each other through a screen. How do I know all of that? Because I had the chance to be a part of it.
When I was originally approached about being a consultant on Visions of Us, to be honest I didn’t really know what to expect. I’ve been working in queer media for more than a few years at this point, and it was the first time I’d ever seen a @netflix email in my inbox. What I found in Jordan Diaz, who brought me onto the team, along with trans Dominican-American filmmaker Kase Peña and bisexual Venezuelan-American writer Francisco Cabrera-Feo was a group of ridiculously talented, smart queer and trans Latinx artists with a genuine passion for our communities and desire to tell our stories the right way. The kinds of nerds for whom a zoom call about story mapping and fact-checking questions lead to fits of laughter about the history of bisexuals in leather jackets and goodbye besos before closing the screen.
What I imagine in other hands could have been a corporate side project for Pride (and listen, I know we have all had our FULL of corporate Pride this year, so I wouldn’t say what I’m about to unless I believed it) instead became a space — and literally, to the best of my knowledge, the only space on film like this — to study the power of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans Latinx stories from the actual queer Latinx people who created and experienced them. To ask what hasn’t been done yet and where are we going next. It’s one thing for white gays to line us up and tell our stories for some scorecard of “diversity points,” it’s quite another when we’re given space to really do it for ourselves.
The four episode series begins rolling out on Friday on YouTube and Con Todo platforms (you can find them on Instagram and Twitter). It will continue through Monday, featuring interviews with Stephanie Beatriz, Tanya Saracho, Wilson Cruz, Steven Canals of Pose, Aurora Guerrero (the writer/director of perennial Autostraddle favorite romance Mosquito y Mari), Garcia (from Tales of the City), Carmen Carrera and so many more.
It… ugh… there’s no other way to put this… it also has some interviews of me? The series also features former Autostraddle Senior Editor Yvonne Marquez, so the extended AS fambam is accounted for — we’re both in the first episode (shhhh!), and if you stick with the series throughout the weekend you might see my face pop up a few extra times throughout.
So here it is! Your EXCLUSIVE trailer drop (for the next hour at least, until it premieres across Netflix’s various social media channels), for Visions of Us. I hope if you have time this weekend, you find your way over to Con Todo and watch. It was a project of love, made by Black and Brown, queer and trans Latinx people about the stories that have shaped us. If you’re reading this website, I have a strong feeling that might be something that you’re into. Just saying.
We've got an✨exclusive trailer drop✨for @contodonetflix's "Visions of Us"!
Visions of Us — featuring Autostraddle's own @yvonnesm12 and @carmencitaloves(!!) — is a digital documentary series unpacking queer Latinx representation in TV/film.
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— Autostraddle (@autostraddle) June 24, 2021
Listen Ok. When Netflix comes to your house to film you with their fancy-Netflix lighting, you take the selfies. I don’t make the rules.
Two L Word Generation Q Season 2 Teasers Are Here and Full of Sex, Hair and Hands
The long-awaited first Season 2 L Word Generation Q Trailers (well, technically they are TEASERS but you know what I mean) are here and wow are they full of mysteries and secrets about what to expect from our favorite lesbians and queers! (If you’re looking for more info on the show, check out this post on everything we know about Season 2 of The L Word Generation Q!)
Here is what we are presented with in this L Word Generation Q teaser, after deep investigation by the TV Team (note this investigation is ongoing and will be updated as information warrants):
- As a personal attack on me specifically, the trailer opens with Gigi telling Nat and Alice she’d like to get back together, and then saying that she is JOKING
- Bette thinks it is unlikely that she is going to find someone who meets all of her criteria, which ok yes of course
- Gigi says “come here” in a sexy voice to a mysterious human
- We cut immediately to Bette doing sexy bite kisses with a mysterious human with curly hair
- Is that Bette and Gigi having sex with each other? I ship it
- UPDATE: Is that Bette and the new character played by Vanessa Williams having sex with each other? I ship it
- Potentially Angie (??!) in a bowtie at prom with Jordie (???)?
- Shane says that “the messy parts of people’s lives are always the most relatable” which is maybe what she’s telling Alice about writing her book?
- Finley has a black eye? INTERESTING
- Finley says in voiceover “I think I’ve always loved you” which is obviously about Sophie #Sinley4Ever
- Someone removes somebody else’s underwear
- Dani says in voiceover “I keep replaying what happened” and I think it is also her saying “I need to know the truth,” which is played over Sophie looking v serious
- Dani and Micah are going for a run! Good for them!
- Someone says “You’ll never tell a soul, right?” and we have no idea who that is!
After deeply analyzing this teaser, we realized there was another:
What do you think of these new Season 2 L Word Generation Q teasers?
Tegan and Sara’s “High School” Series from Clea DuVall Is a Go! Scream Loudly If You Must
Back in October, we learned that Clea DuVall was adapting Tegan and Sara’s best-selling memoir High School into a television series and we promptly sounded the lesbian alarms. Well! Now we are so excited to give an update — High School: The Series (my name, just to distinguish from the memoir, not theirs. And not to be confused with High School: The Musical — or maybe its High School: The Gay Musical? Tegan and Sara, call me!) will be officially produced as a series for Amazon’s IMDb TV.
The show was announced as a part of Amazon’s first-ever New Fronts presentation on Monday. It will be produced by Amazon Studios and Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment. It will also be executive produced by all three lesbian icons (Duvall, the Quin twins).
High School (the memoir) was released in September 2019, chronicling Tegan and Sara’s coming-of-age as Canadian teenagers and their rise as musicians, alternating their perspectives. Filled to the brim with 90s nostalgia, when the book was first released we promptly declared that it would “heal your teenage heart.”
The series, according to Variety, will pick up on that same sweet, sweet refrain, creating a story “about finding your own identity, a journey that is made more complicated when you have a twin whose own struggle and self-discovery closely mimics your own.” It will be told against “a backdrop of ‘90s grunge and rave culture, [that] weaves between parallel and discordant memories of twin sisters growing up down the hall from one another.”
Ok so now you probably have at least one remaining question… what is IMDb TV? That has an easy answer: It’s Amazon’s free, ad-supported streaming service. And now for the incredibly early planners among you (it’s a gay thing, we understand) — how on earth you get to this streaming service? Great news, I’ve already looked it up! If you have an Amazon Fire Stick, it already comes loaded onto the device. If you have Roku, Apple TV, or just want to use your web browser — you basically just have to download it or sign up. Yes, we are still a while away! But I know you wanted to know!
In their official statement about the news, Tegan and Sara confirmed that they have made some casting suggestions to DuVall and Plan B Entertainment, but mostly they just wanted to “apologize in advance to our mother for forcing her to relive this period of time with us again.”
Then, with the fancy business out of the way, they took to Twitter and added that they were as shocked as anyone that their “degenerate” years were being turned into a television show.
No one is more shocked than us, that after a VERY difficult couple years in high school, doing copious amounts of drugs, skipping school, lying + being all around degenerates that we made it this far in our musical journey. THAT story is headed to @IMDbTV https://t.co/KB2ezcZKUN
— Tegan and Sara (@teganandsara) May 3, 2021
We absolutely cannot wait.
“Batwoman” Exclusive Clip: Ryan and Sophie Sitting in a Bar, P-R-O-C-E-S-S-I-N-G
Well, the queer goddesses have heard our prayers, and Ryan and Sophie will, once again, be sharing the screen and delighting in each other in Sunday night’s Batwoman — and we have an exclusive clip for you! Okay “delighting in each other” is a bit of a stretch; Sophie’s actually asking for a HUGE FAVOR. And Ryan’s calling her CROWPHIE.
“Do Not Resuscitate,” which was co-written by queer writers Caroline Dries and Daphne Miles, sees Ryan’s Kryptonite wound getting worse (why won’t she get that thing looked at!), Mary putting her life in danger again trying to reproduce the serum from the Desert Rose, and things getting curiouser and curiouser with Alice’s connection to her new (old?) friend.
I will also note, though it doesn’t say so in the official CW publicity material, that ol’ Soph sure does seem to be getting more and more unbuttoned!
Every episode of Batwoman will be available to stream on The CW App and CWTV.com the day after broadcast for free.
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Jasika Nicole’s Cast in Punky Brewster as Cherie’s Girlfriend! Your Rainbow Gay 80s Childhood Is Back!
Feature Image via Jasika Nicole on Instagram
This afternoon news broke that Jasika Nicole will be joining the Punky Brewster reboot, coming later this month to the Peacock streaming network! Which, to be honest with you, was exciting enough. Punky is an icon of suvivors of 80s childhoods one and all, but her rainbow hued “You can do it!” pig tailed and mismatching socks energy was most beloved by the gays. And lesbian actress Jasika Nicole is an icon of our community in her own right, so this was a match made by the universe. But wait… there’s more!
Jasika has been hired to play Lauren, “a fun-loving and self assured lawyer who’s relationship with [Punky’s best friend] Cherie develops throughout the season.” That’s right, the Punk Brewster is officially officially now gay, and it’s our own Jasika Nicole who’s going to bring that gift to us!! Somebody get me a scrunchie!
Ok so in this new Punky Brewster, Soleil Moon Frye and Cherie Johnson will reprise their roles as Punky and Cherie respectively in a next chapter of the treasured ’80s sitcom, which originally followed a rambunctious young Punky being raised by a foster dad (Cherie lived on the third floor of the apartment building with her grandmother). I’ve never seen the original Punky Brewster to be honest with you, but I’m told there’s something about a refrigerator? I look forward to someone clueing me in! Peacock’s continuation of the family sitcom will find Punky, now a single mom of three, trying to get her life back on track when she meets Izzy (Quinn Copeland), a young girl in the foster system who reminds Punky a lot of her younger self. I dunno know y’all, this sounds HIGH KEY ADORABLE and I literally cannot wait.
In an interview with GLAAD Head of Talent Anthony Ramos, Jasika shared that not only did she watch the original Punky Brewster as a kid, but “I was a Cherie. I had always categorized myself as a Cherie” (aww, cute). But here’s the real shocker — despite working as an out actress in Hollywood for many years, “the first queer role I’ve ever played on network television.” Have I said enough times yet that I CANNOT WAIT!! Ok! Good!
In addition to her many roles on screen (Suicide Kale, Fringe, Scandal, Underground, The Good Doctor), Jasika is known to us for continued advocacy for queer and trans communities in our real lives. She’s worked with Project Q — a a Los Angeles-based non-profit that aims to provide gender affirming haircuts and a safe space for queer and trans youth — but you also may know her from her time spent with Autostraddle as a writer, special guest at live events, and an all-around kind friend of our site.
I asked noted Autostraddle writer and TV specialist Valerie “Punky” Anne — and yes she’s nicknamed after the character, we’ve already covered that queer women love Punky Brewster Thee MostTM — what she had to say about today’s developments, and she supplied us with the following perfect quote: “I must have only ever watched reruns since I wasn’t even 2 yet when the show ended, but I looooved Punky and Cherie and their mischief! The original Punky and Cherie were involved, and now JASIKA is going to be on it? As Cherie’s GIRLFRIEND?? My statement would just be a bunch of rainbow flag and sob emojis. My whole secretly gay childhood has been leading to this moment of my very not secretly gay adulthood.”
You can catch Peacock’s Punky Brewster revival on February 25th, however you like to stream good things. And here’s a trailer for those you craving that sweet dose of Punky Power:
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The Final(?) “Wynonna Earp” Trailer is Here
On Friday, Earpers learned that our beloved reluctant hero/cursed gunslinger/badass babe with a taste for whiskey Wynonna Earp might not be returning to us for a season five. The bright side is, this knowledge comes in the middle of Season Four, so we still have six more episodes waiting for us that we now know we should truly savor.
And from the looks of this trailer, there will be plenty to enjoy.
One thing I’ve loved about Wynonna Earp is how much it always feels just like it should. The music, the jokes, the chaos, the stress. It’s all so Earp. It looks like Wynonna goes on a bit of a bender, Nicole and Waverly’s wedding planning proves to be difficult on a hellmouth, Doc’s in danger (must be Tuesday), and once again something is making our baby girl scream her sister’s name. The Earp sisters are very important to me dot tumblr dot com.
WayHaught also good.
I’m sure it will be nothing but wedding bliss and honeymoon phases for these two in 4b!! No danger or angst at all!!!
Can’t wait to dive back into the chaos with you all.
Season 4 continues on March 5th at 10pm EST on SYFY. See ya there, shittickets!
“Wynonna Earp” Will Say Goodbye To WayHaught In Season 4B
As any fan of Wynonna Earp knows, getting the fourth season both made and aired has been quite the feat. Renewals, cancellations, re-renewals… and then a global pandemic. But finally, finally Team Earp is returning to us (and on Fridays again, no less) for the second half of Season 4 — which looks like they might be the last episodes of the show.
Wynonna looks like me in quarantine in this shot.
The first half of the season left us with some questions about Eve, some actions that will surely have emotional consequences, a lone Clanton on the loose and surely displeased, Wynonna finally reunited with Peacemaker, and a WayHaught proposal. Who knows what these final six episodes have in store (I learned early in Season 1 that guessing is futile because when you think this show might zig or even zag it has a chili cookoff FOR FREEDOM so there’s no use trying to predict anything) but one thing Wynonna Earp has always done well is staying true to the heart of these characters we’ve grown to love over the years, so I’m sure Waverly and Nicole are in good hands, even if those hands will put them through the angst machine a bit before it’s all said and done.
I won’t lie, Wynonna Earp has been my favorite show since Orphan Black and my whole heart is invested; from the characters to the stories to the people behind the scenes creating the show. There are so many queer people on screen — including Dominique Provost-Chalkley and Kat Barrell, who play everyone’s favorite bisexual angel and lesbian sheriff respectively – and even more behind the scenes, and it’s been so fun to watch them have fun making this show. So this news is a bit of a blow, but I’m holding onto a little kernel of hope that this isn’t really goodbye.
In the press release, showrunner Emily Andras said that she was proud of these last six episodes on SYFY, and goes on to say, “I have been honored to tell Wynonna and her family’s story, and along with Seven24, Cineflix and CTV Sci-Fi, are hopeful we can continue to share their inspiring tales in the future.”
So maybe that means the studios will be looking for a new home for the show, and if any fandom can convince a new network to pick them up, it’s Earpers. Whatever Emily wants, however she wants this to end, that’s what I want too. It’s her bus, I’m just riding it.
But if this truly is goodbye, we’ll at least have these four perfect seasons of television to put in the queer representation hall of fame. We’ll always have Purgatory.
See you on March 5th at 10pm EST on Syfy, Earpers.
GLAAD: You Watched TV Like a Full-Time Job in 2020, Even With Fewer LGBTQ+ Characters
GLAAD released my all-time favorite annual collection of stats today: the Where We Are on TV report for 2020. GLAAD has been putting this thing together since 2005. It started with counting the number of LGBT characters on TV and has evolved into a deeply researched and detailed analysis of LGBTQ+ characters and the quality of their screen time, breaking the numbers down by things like gender, race, disability, age, and all-ages and Spanish-language programming. GLAAD then uses the report — and its past reports to highlight trends — as part of their advocacy and education initiatives throughout the year. Numbers matter. For example, activism around the Bury Your Gays became a lot more effective when fans were able to point the massive list Riese assembled of all the dead queer women on TV over the years. I used to be an accountant! I love numbers!
ANYWAY.
This year’s Where We Are on TV report is really interesting because, first of all, GLAAD quotes Nielsen and notes that, with the pandemic raging, Americans were at home watching TV enough for it to basically be a full-time job in 2020 (37 hours per week, on average). And second of all, there was a downtrend in several areas that had seen pretty consistent progress over the last many years because so much TV and film production was on hold in 2020. This is especially true because there are still so few LGBTQ+ characters overall that missing even a few shows makes a significant impact, as is the case in 2020 where we lost shows with multiple characters like The L Word: Generation Q (which didn’t film due to the pandemic), How to Get Away With Murder (which ended its run in 2020), and cancelled faves like GLOW. You’ll also note that’s a lot of POC characters.
One of the most interesting things about this year’s report was the fact that “one in every five LGBTQ characters appears on a series that is tied to one of just four creatives” — Greg Berlanti, Lena Waithe, Ryan Murphy and Shonda Rhimes. Meaning that 5% of shows account for 17% of total LGBTQ+ characters.
The total series regulars on broadcast TV were down down to 9.1% from last year’s 10.2%. Cable dropped to 118 characters total, down from last year’s 215. And streaming services — Hulu, Amazon, Netflix, etc. — dropped to 141 characters, down from last year’s 153. On a more positive note, there was a slight increase in characters with disabilities; there are 38 regular and recurring trans characters, up from 26 last year; racial diversity increased on broadcast and cable shows; and we’re getting a new asexual character in 2021 (whose identity is under embargo).
I was also really pleased to see GLAAD talk about the uprising for Black lives that has been shaping our cultural conversation since last summer, and name the concrete steps some networks have taken to ensure they are addressing systemic racism in their programming. “New calls were made for change in the entertainment industry which would prioritize hiring, promoting, and investing in Black creators and stories on all levels,” GLAAD writes. “Since June, several networks and studios have either launched or expanded their staff and efforts in the Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity space. Several companies made donations to the Black Lives Matter movement, and CBS signed a multiyear agreement with the NAACP which will include a dedicated team of executives working with the group to acquire, develop, and produce new programming across ViacomCBS properties.”
It is so necessary for us to begin seeing those changes immediately — in the next season — on TV. (Check out Color of Change’s recent Normalizing Injustice report for more data on the impact of negative representation for POC characters.)
Netflix leads the way with LGBTQ+ characters on streaming platforms, and the CW on cable. (Let’s go, Batwoman!)
You can check out GLAAD’s full 2020 Where We Are on TV Report right here!
BTW, Shannon Berry from “The Wilds” is Queer
I’ve been writing about TV for eight years, and it’s astounding how much has changed in such a relatively short period of time. When I first started, we had to have entire murderboards and charts and rely on whispered rumors and what we believed in our hearts to be true when it came to celebrities playing for “our team.” When people did come out, it was via a long, emotional acceptance speech at an awards show, a personal essay.
But Gen Z doesn’t have time for that. They want 15 second TikTok videos and 13-character coming out tweets.
https://twitter.com/shangraceberry/status/1343843692243644417?s=19
AND I’M LIVING FOR IT. Ellen crawled so Kirsten Stewart could walk, Elliot Page walked so millennials could run, and millennials ran so Gen Z could fly.
In case you aren’t familiar, this actor, Shannon Berry, plays Dot on the newish Amazon show The Wilds, which I rather enjoyed so was delighted to see. And of course, because of my Nancy Drew roots when I saw Mia Healey (who plays Shelby on the show) respond with this:
https://twitter.com/miahealey2/status/1343896671730585601
My instinct was to poke around and see if she’d dropped any other clues. And while it’s not QUITE as cut-and-dry as as Shannon’s, so maybe I’m misinterpreting here, but this feels pretty on the nose to me. Because like I said, this new wave of actors doesn’t have time to waste.
https://twitter.com/miahealey2/status/1338105690439630848?s=19
They’re too busy making the world a better (and gayer) place than they found it.
Pop Culture Fix: “The Last of Us” Is Bringing its Lesbians and Clickers and Trauma to HBO
Gooob Monday morning, friends! Here is your first Pop Culture Fix of the week!
+ HBO has officially greenlit the Last of Us adaptation by two Chernobyl EPs and Naughty Dog VP Neil Druckmann. Get ready to be traumatized while swooning! JK, you’re already ready for that; you’ve been watching lesbian TV and movies for years!
+ The teaser for Batwoman season two is here and in case you haven’t heard I AM SO EXCITED I CAN HARDLY STAND IT.
+ A nonbinary version of the Flash is joining the Justice League.
+ Black Lightning will end after next season. (China Anne McClain has weighed in on it in an Insta that broke my heart even more.)
+ How to tell if you’re in a serious lesbian period romance.
+ Billy Porter will make his directorial debut with the coming of age story What If?
+ Please enjoy the trailer for the director’s cut of But I’m a Cheerleader, which lands on December 8th.
+ Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate confirms Mileena is in a relationship with her Edenian ally, Tanya.
+ Noelle Stevenon wrote a piece for Vulture that I really love! It’s called: For the Honor of Moon Prism Power, Make Up! and it’s about how the transformation sequences in Sailor Moon and She-Ra and how the former taught us that femininity isn’t weak.
+ I missed this piece when it came out due to COVID, but it came across my timeline this weekend and I read it and loved it. It’s a comprehensive guide to Star Trek’s LGBTQ rep.
+ 10 times Dolly Parton was a literal angel.
+ Dua Lipa licks Miley Cyrus’s face in this new Cherry Bomb video.
Ryan Murphy’s “The Prom” Trailer Is Here to Gay up Your Day
Who’s ready to go to gay prom?
I was lucky enough, thanks largely in part to my living in New York City, to see The Prom on stage during it’s (arguably too short) run on Broadway, and I won’t lie, I was originally wary of the concept. Would a story about a girl whose school wouldn’t let her take another girl to prom (based on a true story that happened in 2010 in Mississippi) hold up in 2020? In New York?? On Broadway??? But then the original cast performed at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and the leads of the show (queer Broadway stars Caitlin Kinnunen and Isabelle McCalla) kissed and the world got ANGRY. So I knew we still needed a musical like this.
Plus, as a queer person who has loved musicals for as long as she can remember (technically I saw my first musical in the womb), it was nice to be the point of one. It wasn’t the first time, and I reckon it won’t be the last, but it was a sweet, wholesome, very approachable musical that hopefully melted a few hearts. Or at least helped some young people know their unruly hearts are perfect just the way they are.
I was once again wary when I heard Netflix was going to let Ryan Murphy tell yet another lesbian story (“wary” is my default setting these days) but with an all-star cast of Hollywood greats like Meryl Streep, Kerry Washington, and Nicole Kidman, and queer Broadway performers Ariana Debose and Jo Ellen Pellmen at the helm of it all, there’s no way it isn’t a romp. Right?
Enjoy this trailer full of glitz and glamour and hope with me, if you will, that this will be sparkly and fun and gay, more like peak Glee than American Horror Story: Cult, if you know what I mean.
Watch One Day at a Time on CBS, or It’ll Get Cancelled! This Is Not a Drill!
There’s a lot happening in the world right now. We’re 22 days away from a national election that will change the course of this country. Right now, as I write this, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are jamming through the nomination hearing of Amy Coney Barrett, a personified threat to our nation’s healthcare system and bodily autonomy of its citizens, in a sham of a process that’s also left most of its committee members exposed to COVID. Because oh yeah, the president of the United States tested positive for COVID-19 just ten days ago, along with the chairman of the committee. So let’s not forget the ever present threat of the global pandemic, the depths of economic recession and emotional depression it’s put us through. Like I said, lots! going! on! In between all the mess and anxiety that surrounds us, I want to bring you this tangible piece of joy: You can save the perennial queer favorite sitcom One Day at a Time… all you have to do is watch it tonight (and the next three weeks) on CBS.
Save One Day at a Time! So we can dance and be happy! EVERYTHING ELSE IS SAD.
Much like Abuela Lydia, never one to mince her words, I’m going to give it to you straight: One Day at a Time has one lifeline left. And this is it.
If we don’t watch the CBS re-airing of the series’ fourth season (previously aired on Pop TV during the early days of the pandemic, when we were all shellshocked with fear and it was the kindest balm), it’s very likely going away forever.
“It always felt like the show was on life support, and maybe it would open its eyes any day.” That’s how One Day at a Time showrunner and executive producer Gloria Calderón Kellett described it to the LA Times when the series was originally cancelled by Netflix in 2018. “We were holding a several-months-long vigil. Some days it was touch and go. It was a little too hard on the heart. Some days, we’d be like, ‘No, no, no.’” And you know what? We’ve been in that touch-and-go ever since.
After the series’ original cancellation, producers shopped to the comedy to other networks, eventually landing at Pop TV, which is owned by ViacomCBS. Then, just as the stage was set for its triumphant return — the coronavirus came knocking at our doors. Their entire promotional train was derailed. That fancy panel at PaleyFest? Cancelled. Rita Moreno’s guest stint on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert? Forget about it. Likewise, The View and The Today Show. ODAAT finally was going to have the mainstream buzz it deserved, and instead it was forced to scrap by on its own in the worst of conditions. (Much like many of us sitting at home just trying scrap by out of this hell of a year, I might add).
Now, Pop TV is reportedly getting out of the scripted television production business altogether. Tonight’s premiere on CBS is really all we got. But you know what, like Calderón Kellett says, “You can’t keep a good show down.”
See these sad faces? WE CAN STOP THESE SAD FACES!
Maybe that sounds looming and scary, but I prefer to put on Elena Alvarez Queer Teen Superhero optimism cap and tell you that this is an opportunity. CBS is the largest and most-watched network in the United States. And while the show’s original deal with ViacomCBS network Pop TV always included a re-run of the series on the CBS broadcast network, it was originally imagined as summer burn off content, something to air when no one was watching. But then coronavirus-related production woes happened industry-wide, and now One Day at a Time has found itself landing its big time premiere smack dab in the middle of the fall schedule, which happens to be television’s biggest stage.
So, in so many ways, this TV moment is actually a come up for a show that’s always existed on the bubble of cancellation. At least as much as it is also a Hail Mary pass. ODAAT has never, not ever, had a bigger platform to shine than it does right now. All we have to do is show up.
Gloria Calderón Kellett said as much to Tell-Tale TV last month, “we really want to get the word out that if people want more One Day at a Time, the best shot is a home at CBS where we could make the show for many more years and have a proper broadcast home. So it’s thrilling. It’s really thrilling, and we’re so excited, and we want to make more.”
Listen to the woman, this is THRILLING!! And we can do this, you gay nerds! We can watch a show we already love, stay steadfast this month, and save a beloved sitcom.
Do it for the nerdy gay teen kisses! Who else has their first kiss while dressed like Dr. Who? NO ONE THAT’S WHO!
Coronavirus related television cancellations have already come for a quite a bit of our queer shows, ABC has cancelled Colby Smulders bisexual dirtbag (and yes, that’s a good thing!) Dex Parios in Stumptown, despite having previously renewed the show. That same “previously renewed and now snatched from the jaws of victory thanks to COVID” also happened to Netflix favorite G.L.O.W. just last week, cancelling the series’ final fourth season. The Netflix grim reaper wasn’t done, also cancelling the most fun teen comedy-mystery I’d seen over five years, Teenage Bounty Hunters after its stellar first season. Did I mention that Netflix also cancelled One Day at a Time almost two years ago, which is how we ended up in this mess to begin with?
That’s not even to mention that One Day at a Time is making its broadcast premiere tonight in a television landscape that originally had slated zero Latinx television shows on broadcast television. (One Day at a Time , and the equally saved from the dusty shelves L.A.’s Finest on FOX are helping to change that statistic). After a year when zero Latinx actors were nominated for an Emmy Award. Yes, I really said ZERO.
As queer television watchers, we’re often left mourning our shows in their wake. The stories that make our heart beat out of their bleeding chests, the ones that leave our shirts wet with tears of recognition, or our gut doubled over in that particular kind of knowing laughter (ODAAT has done all three) — they don’t often get to make it to the finish line. Straight audiences, and as is most often the case, the straight white men behind the scenes who control the money of the production, don’t get why our stories matter. But WE do! And One Day at a Time does! And this time! This time we can save it.
This is a rare opportunity. We don’t have to pour out our cafecito and wonder what would have happened. We can still see Elena take Syd to prom (I hope they go in cosplay). We can still send Elena off to college and watch her crush on her Feminist Studies professor and wear Birkenstocks and drive Lydia crazy. We’re going to watch Papito drive his first car. We’re going to see Abuela take Penelope to Cuba for the first time, and watch them cry when their feet hit soil.
There’s still time on the clock. So get ready, the next three weeks count.
Here’s How You Can Help Save One Day at a Time
- Watch it Live on CBS. They will be running the six episode series over the next three weeks, in two-episode blocks of one hour each. It airs tonight at 9pm EST/8pm Central.
- Live tweet during the show, using #ODAAT. You can also tweet about #ODAAT during all hours if it makes you happy. Ah hell, let’s go ahead and @CBS while we’re at it. Laugh, enjoy, tell them how much this little show that could means to you.
- DVR or stream the series if you’re going to miss it live, then watch those recordings! Within the first few days. Don’t wait around. (You should stream on Hulu or CBS All Access, where CBS is able to track the numbers. CBS All Access is the first choice here.)
- Currently CBS is not planning on airing the STUNNING animated political special that One Day at a Time created after Season 4’s production ended due to the coronavirus (episode 4.07), despite the fact that over at ABC blackish’s similar animated election special has been lauded with critical praise. Does that make you feel angry feelings? Channel your inner Elena and organize! Tweet CBS about the animated election special. Tell them that you want to see it! Because trust us, you really do.
- Whew OK. Wash, Rinse, Repeat.
Abuelita Lydia also recommends rum, if that’s your thing. You can also drink water. But drink up! It might be all we have left.
Netflix Sucker Punches G.L.O.W and Teenage Bounty Hunters Into Cancellation and We Are Upset
As you know, there is currently a nasty virus overtaking this country and ruining everything (with the exception of its current proximity towards Donald Trump, upon whom I wish nothing but the worst), and now G.L.O.W,, which starting in Season Two featured two QPOC characters and also did a very gay Season Three, has added itself to that list of ruined things. Also on the docket for death is Teenage Bounty Hunters, which is also gay and involves women doing physical harm to others but in a funny way. This comes shortly after Netflix’s cancellation of I Am Not Okay With This, which had a queer tomboy lead.
Despite its Season 4 renewal, Netflix has backed out of completing G.L.O.W. because “resuming GLOW production under COVID safety protocols proved too difficult, not only because of the close physical contact necessary for so many of the show’s scenes, but also because of its large cast and the difficulty of filming in Los Angeles right now.” The budget increase to make this feasible was apparently a hard “no” from Netflix. They have however found the money to keep up with Stranger Things.
In a statement to Deadline, co-creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch told Deadline:
“COVID has killed actual humans. It’s a national tragedy and should be our focus. COVID also apparently took down our show. Netflix has decided not to finish filming the final season of GLOW. We were handed the creative freedom to make a complicated comedy about women and tell their stories. And wrestle. And now that’s gone. There’s a lot of shitty things happening in the world that are much bigger than this right now. But it still sucks that we don’t get to see these 15 women in a frame together again. We’ll miss our cast of weirdo clowns and our heroic crew. It was the best job. Register to vote. Please vote.”
All of the actors have been paid for Season Four although only one episode completed filming prior to COVID’s shut-down. Unclear if this has extended to the crew.
The internet is upset, just like me:
I try not to get too upset about cancellations. But I'm so sad about GLOW, bc I fell for that show the minute I saw the pilot—so bold, warped and goofy, and yet, so emotionally sharp & realistic about the 1980s for women. AND I WANTED TO SEE BETTY GILPIN HEAD UP A TV NETWORK.
— Emily Nussbaum (@emilynussbaum) October 5, 2020
https://twitter.com/carolineframke/status/1313218522013667328
Hetflix calm down, look at your life choices
— Emily Andras (@emtothea) October 5, 2020
Valerie, who writes for esteemed queer website Autostraddle dot com, summed it up thusly: “The Outer Banks was the worst show I’ve watched in quarantine and Teenage Bounty Hunters was one of the best shows I’ve watched in the past year and I know it’s not necessarily fair to compare them/i’m just one person with opinions but i’m angry That Outer Banks and their heterosexual nonsense got renewed but TBH didn’t.”
Pop Culture Fix: Brittani Nichols Is Making a Queer Quibi Dramedy Series
Oh hi, are you here for your Monday Pop Culture Fix? Well, good news: I have done it for you!
Titled “Toothbrush,” the series follows Rae. A queer woman living on the east side of Los Angeles, she struggles to find balance and boundaries with Emma, her ex-girlfriend turned best friend whose apartment she finds herself staying over more often than not. As the two of them pursue their individual professional and romantic aspirations, the codependent nature of their relationship forces them to confront their feelings for each other, begging the question, “Can two exes ever really just be friends?”
+ Brittani has of course weighed in with more detail.
https://twitter.com/BisHilarious/status/1305553536063696896
+ A trans high school rom-com! Yes, it’s true! Starring Rain Valdez and Rachel Leyco!
+ DCFandome released a Batwoman panel this weekend, with Javicia Leslie, Rachel Skarsten, Camrus Johnson, Meagan Tandy and Nicole Kang. I love this bit:
“But I know Caroline and I were talking about how important it is that if we’re going to have a Black Batwoman” — and to be clear, she’s the first Black Batwoman — “that she needs to be, like, a sista when she becomes Batwoman,” Leslie added with a chuckle. “It’s important for her to feel like the silhouette of her could still look like that, with natural textured hair and things like that.”
+ Batwoman has cast Shivani Ghai as Safiyah!
+ Still not hype? OKAY TRY THIS.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CE-o5iAhymr/
+ There sure are a lot of gays on ESPN’s WNBA’s 10 top stars and five best rookies list!
+ Harley Quinn’s producers are hoping for a third season.
+ Hamilton star Jasmine Cephas Jones to lead Blindspotting spin-off series at Starz.
+ Jane Fonda, America Ferrera, Janet Mock will narrate a climate activism audiobook.
+ Sarah Paulson, Cynthia Nixon and Sharon Stone on Ratched.
+ Saoirse Ronan on her very interesting jobs and her new lesbian dinosaur film Ammonite.
+ Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion take you behind the scenes of WAP.
+ A day on a film set in the time of Coronavirus.
+ Nintendo and Sega documentary Console Wars hits CBS All Access this month.
+ Ryan Murphy’s The Prom adaptation is coming to Netflix in December.
+ And finally, give this duck (swan? goose?) its own TV show.
“Put that mask back on bitch” https://t.co/SsyAgNHyB9
— DylDisco💿 (@Dyl_ishh) September 11, 2020
Pop Culture Fix: Pretty Little Liars Is Getting Rebooted by Riverdale’s Showrunner
Here’s a Pop Culture Fix I curated just for you!
+ A Pretty Little Liars reboot is on the way from Riverdale showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, which feels weird because Pretty Little Liars only ended like 16 minutes ago — and also because, well, the PLL aesthetic birthed the Riverdale aesthetic and now the Riverdale aesthetic is rebirthing the PLL aesthetic? Pretty Little Liars was already a literal nesting doll of wacky horror tropes; I guess now we’re gonna find out what happens when you fold up a ghost like origami!
+ Grey’s Anatomy is gearing up to start production on season 17.
+ JAVICIA LESLIE IS ON THE BATWOMAN SET.
+ Well, Sarah Paulson in this Ratched trailer is properly horrifying.
+ Troop Beverly Hills is getting a sequel?! (What a thrill!)
+ Three POC writers quit Netflix’s Grand Army due to racist exploitation and abuse, Ming Peiffer revealed on Twitter when the trailer dropped last week.
https://twitter.com/mingpdynasty/status/1301225559243001863?s=21
+ Meet Quintessa Swindell, a non-binary actor about to take Hollywood by storm.
+ Netflix introduces a free, no subscription required tier for select titles.
+ The best Gabrielle episodes of Xena.
+ If you didn’t want to shell out the extra 30 bucks to watch Mulan this weekend, you can wait until December and watch it for free — “free” — with just your regular Disney+ subscription. (Related: Toward a queer Disney canon.)
+ Gina Torres has joined 911: Lone Star as a series regular.
+ Ashly Burch — who you know as the voice of queer asexual Parvati Holcomb in Outer Worlds, queer protagonist Chloe Price in Life Is Strange, queer-cause-I-said-so Aloy in Horizon Zero Dawn, and queer as every character she plays with the Critical Role crew — is on the third episode of Kotaku’s Behind the Voice.
+ Meet the women behind Stacey Abrams’ new documentary, All In: The Fight for Democracy.